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...House Committee announced it would find out what, if anything, was wrong with the Air Corps' planes. While the President was ordering air mail curtailment by the Army another newsworthy event was taking place at the War Department. Into Secretary Dern's office marched Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh who, at the Secretary's invitation, had flown from New York with Mrs. Lindbergh. What the Secretary and the Colonel talked about for an hour and a half, they alone knew. Mr. Dern explained that he had sought "general advice" on aviation. Some newshawks interpreted the invitation as another...
America's great moral paragon, Colonel Charles Augustus Lindbergh, has again leaped to the front with one of those magnanimous and forthright gestures that have so endeared him to the hearts of his beloved countrymen. He has refused to take part in the army air investigation, despite the fact that he might gain much power and glory thereby. Still the simple modest lad that flew the Atlantic all by himself, he eschews the temptations of this life when to yield to them would be to sacrifice his faith. So he has--at what cost only he can know--remained true...
...Columbia University, that yeasty pot of progressive ideas, President Roosevelt dipped such potent Brain Trusters as Raymond Moley, Rexford Tugwell, Adolf Augustus Berle Jr. (see p. 55), Abraham S. Hewitt, Leo Wolman, Blackwell Smith. But Columbia was still left with a good supply of bright young professors who were disgruntled with the old order, passionately dedicated to the new. Last week many of them moved in a body to Cleveland, where the Progressive Education Association and the National Education Association's Department of Superintendence were convening. There they planted in the educational world the same kind of ideas which...
...would continue to run the company. No matter how much Father Thomas might wish to see his red-haired boy get along, he could not have wangled the presidency for Son Edward against the will of a directorate which includes Col. Albert Arnold Sprague (Sprague Warner & Co.), Edwin Augustus Potter Jr. (Guaranty Trust Co. of New York), Henry C. Olcott (Skelly Oil), James MacHenry Hopkins (Camel...
...York City's Mayor Fiorello Henry LaGuardia visited the new $8,000,000 Bronx County Court House, exclaimed: "Why, it reminded me of the palaces of my ancestors, Justinian, Augustus Caesar and Nero. In fact, they did not know so much about splendor-they were just pikers. That building up there -oh, it's just gorgeous. Take the grand jury room, for instance. After sitting there on a ball-bearing throne in luxury that Romans never knew, the juror will go home and say Phooey!' Why, that room is so spacious that no witness will ever come...